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N1971F

Cessna 172N

Valid Kansas

N1971F is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Butterfly Aviation INC, a corporation in Goodland, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 15, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N
Serial number
17273059
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A184AD (octal 50302255)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 10, 1986
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 15, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00253040

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Butterfly Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
602 Renner Field Rd
Goodland, KS 67735-9292

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data